Monday, November 20

Be Careful What You Wish For....

The Joys of Home Ownership?
Exhaustion, pain, sore muscles, bruises, cuts, sleepless nights and more. Well it hasn't been exactly what I had in mind since we moved in. Of course our particular situation is not exactly normal either. With my physical limitations due to my back in direct opposition to my husband's need to constantly be busy, there is a hard to maintain balancing act going on regularly. We also have had several discussions about what is and is not a priority as far as needing to be done now, and what can or should wait to be done for better weather.

When any new home owners move into an older home they are faced with the fact that there are things that they want to do to the home, some of which are priorities that really need attention immediately, and others are going to fall into the category of improvements that the home owner wants to make themselves. These projects of course face many determining factors beside priority such as cost and time of year. For example our home needs gutters installed for a very pratical reason. Drainage. With an average to heavy rain the water flowing off the roof ends up under the foundation and gutters with properly placed down spouts would divert the rainwater away from the foundation. Even though the money is available for the purchase of the gutters now, installing gutters in the cold weather is not at all a pleasant job and better left till early spring. After all, if the house has lasted 30 yrs without them, it will certainly make it another few months.

We discoved that one of the panes in the master bathroom window actually had a gap where the glazing was missing and had to be corrected quickly before the weather got really cold. This seeming easy repair problem revealed a much worse problem though. Evidently the window had been repaired or broken before because the entire wooden frame was barely being held together by a badly placed couple of nails. The window was obviously going to need replacement. Luckily this house has storm windows in addition to the regular windows, and since late October is not the best time for doing this type work, the glaze was replaced so that the gap was sealed and we will replace the window later.

Several other things have been done here and there. As I stated, my husband can not sit still. The red dining room walls are gone and so is the awful camo crap on the wall in the entry hallway. (That was horrible to take off and whatever idiot put that there should be tarred and feathered!) More on this later as I get time and pics to come. With the holidays coming and we are preparing for my parents 50th Wedding anniversary time will continue to be spread in several directions. (I am looking forward to January cause I swear I am taking the whole month off!)

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